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Archiving can refer to the process of archiving files or the process of archiving data. File archiving is combining one or multiple files into one file or container. Data archiving is the process of relocating data that is no longer actively used to a separate storage area for long-term retention.

I want to backup my systems to split tar archives with a script uploading them one by one. It has to create the split archive and then run a script. The script uploads the part and deletes it. This is ...

I have a directory with many .zip files. I wish to search through them to match an uncompressed file size (I am trying to find which .zip my file originated in, and the name's been changed). IDEALLY, ...

is it possible to remove a known password from a ZIP archive without extracting the actual archive?
I have some heavily compressed archives and want to avoid having to extract and rezip each of those ...

I have a zip archive containing a big directory tree with many files. I'm using an application that does something with zip archives. The problem is that the application has a limitation on how many ...

I have a PHP app that creates a .zip folder out of files that are restricted to specific groups using ACL, then submits it to the user to download. Specifically, everyone is allowed to read them, but ...

In my company we have a lot of customer information saved in .pdf files which are stored on a QNAP NAS.
I want to be able to do a quick search for information inside the .pdf, like Contract Numbers ...

I am using 7-zip to make a switchless install (method for doing so here and here). I would like to use a password protected archive to make said install to help prevent the average user from simply ...

I am using Linux Slackware 14, downloaded a zip archive with a file, containing Russian characters in it's name. Now when I try to unzip it in console, it prints an error and doesn't unzip:
bash-4.2$ ...

I'm trying to us the Archive Database feature in Exchange 2010, but the messages that are being archived are not available in Outlook or OWA.
Outlook is being run on a Terminal Server, so Cached Mode ...

I'm doing some file recovery on an old hard drive, using the most recent stable PhotoRec. After finding a lot of files that I wanted to keep, I decided to make some of them (meaning over 700) easier ...

Is there a utility/archive format that works on windows, that can add files to an already existing archive that is split into volumes (like file.rar.001, file.rar.002)? And if the size of these new ...

I have multiple files that I would like to pack into archives of no more than 100MB. The only option I could find was to split the archive into volumes, but what I want is standalone archives that can ...

I would like to backup all my email from and to a specific exchange 2010 email address. Ideally I would like to have them sync to a gmail account.
Is there anyway to do this without adding a rule to ...

The new Winrar 5 allow you to have a dictionary size of upto 1GB. Does this have any affect on images? I tried setting the dictionary size of 256MB but the resulting image archive was almost same as ...

I am trying to compress a file with option -v but I am unable to figure out the byte count to set, yielding two identical sized archive parts (part1,part2). My original file size is: 1068303782 bytes. ...

I'm trying to extract some old game artwork from a demo. The demo was for a cancelled game from 1999/2000 based on the tabletop wargame Gorkamorka. The demo can be found here. I've been able to get it ...

This is with Windows 7.
I have an iterative process, and on each iteration it produces a text file. What I want to do is compress this text file on each iteration to an archive. I'm using vb.net and ...

I get a lot of emails in shared inbox containing number in their subject (like 9921635). These emails then I need to archive to subfolders which are part of the shared inbox that is also containing ...

I want to archive my SMS and MMS messages on my Android phone. I found a few applications that can do this and save the results to an SD card or email. That's nice, but not powerful enough for me. I ...